Faking it: replica architecture sweeps China – in pictures

From a pebble-like Zaha Hadid imitation in Chongqing to an Austrian village grafted on to a Huizhou hillside, not forgetting a Le Corbusier BBQ shack in Zhengzhou – architecture copycats are all the rage in China

And back to China – Zhengzhou in particular – where a copycat Ronchamp chapel was partly demolished after an intervention by the Fondation Le Corbusier. A barbeque restaurant now operates out of its ruins

Six years ago the then-mayor launched an ambitious plan to reconstruct the lost walls, watchtowers and Ming-style homes of the city – resettling tens of thousands of residents and transforming Datong into a tourist site. Now few want to live here